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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mayo Clinic doctors lack clinical data as rich as K Health's
“And just to be very clear, a doctor in Mayo Clinic does not have access to this information. There's no medical grade system that allows you to compare yourself to a data set that's as rich and relevant as you are.”
Opinion
Bloch: US electronic medical records are built for billing, not patient care
“It's all built for billing, especially, especially in America.”
Opinion
Bloch: Popular clinical system UpToDate looks like software from 1990
“If you use the content management systems that doctors use in hospitals or in clinics, ah, the most popular one is UpToDate. It looks like a content management system from 1990 or 1985. It's a heuristic-driven system. It doesn't really help you understand, ah,…”
Disclosure
K Health trained its diagnostic AI on 80 million doctors' notes
“So we essentially took eighty million doctor's notes that have all these different symptoms and sub, sub-symptoms And in, ah, diagnosis and treatment, and tied them all in together, and essentially trade a machine through ontology, ah, to build a differential …”
Disclosure
Bloch: K Health's AI is not a rules-based decision tree
“There's no decision trees here. This is not a rules-based system.”
Disclosure
Comcast invested in K Health and is deploying to 200,000 employees
“Comcast is a big investor, and they're rolling out a KR too. They have about 200,000 employees.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bloch: Apple, Amazon, and Google will likely compete in personal health
“And plus, you have Apple, Amazon, and Google that are very likely to be in this market and probably compete directly here.”
Disclosure
K Health licenses 20-year medical dataset from Israeli HMO
“So we license a very large data set from an HMO out in Israel that has about 20 years of data.”
Assertion Supported
K Health reached 500,000 users within six months of launch
“We have about half a million people, but we just launched our product about six months ago.”